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NATIONAL PRESS CLUB LUNCHEON ADDRESS BY SAM WATERSTON SUBJECT: THE UNITY '08 MOVEMENT TO ELECT THE FIRST-EVER BIPARTISAN PRESIDENTIAL TICKET MODERATOR: JERRY ZREMSKI, NATIONAL PRESS CLUB PRESIDENT LOCATION: NATIONAL PRESS CLUB, WASHINGTON, D.C. TIME: 1:00 P.M. EDT DATE: WEDNESDAY, APRIL 25, 2007 (C) COPYRIGHT 2005, FEDERAL NEWS SERVICE, INC., 1000 VERMONT AVE. NW; 5TH FLOOR; WASHINGTON, DC - 20005, USA. ALL RIGHTS RESERVED. ANY REPRODUCTION, REDISTRIBUTION OR RETRANSMISSION IS EXPRESSLY PROHIBITED. UNAUTHORIZED REPRODUCTION, REDISTRIBUTION OR RETRANSMISSION CONSTITUTES A MISAPPROPRIATION UNDER APPLICABLE UNFAIR COMPETITION LAW, AND FEDERAL NEWS SERVICE, INC. RESERVES THE RIGHT TO PURSUE ALL REMEDIES AVAILABLE TO IT IN RESPECT TO SUCH MISAPPROPRIATION. FEDERAL NEWS SERVICE, INC. IS A PRIVATE FIRM AND IS NOT AFFILIATED WITH THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT. NO COPYRIGHT IS CLAIMED AS TO ANY PART OF THE ORIGINAL WORK PREPARED BY A UNITED STATES GOVERNMENT OFFICER OR EMPLOYEE AS PART OF THAT PERSON'S OFFICIAL DUTIES. FOR INFORMATION ON SUBSCRIBING TO FNS, PLEASE CALL JACK GRAEME AT 202-347-1400. ------------------------- MR. ZREMSKI: Good afternoon. Good afternoon and welcome to the National Press Club. My name is Jerry Zremski and I'm Washington Bureau Chief for The Buffalo News and president of the Press Club. I'd like to welcome club members and their guests as well as those of you watching today on CSPAN. We're looking forward to today's speech and afterwards I'll ask as many questions as time permits. Please hold your applause during the speech so that we have as much time for questions as possible. For our broadcast audience, I'd like to explain that if you hear applause it may be from the guests and members of the general public who attend our luncheons and not from the working press. I'd now like to introduce our head table guests and ask them to stand briefly when their names are called. From your right, Kate Hunter of Congressional Quarterly, the chair of our young members committee here at the Press Club; Ralph Melzick (ph) executive producer of NBC radio programs; Alicia Mundee of the Seattle Times; Ivan Roman of the National Association of Hispanic Journalists; Jerry Rafshoon, former White House communications director and cofounder of Unity '08 and guest of the speaker; Ken Melgrin (ph) of AP Broadcast; the Honorable Angus King, former governor of Maine and cofounder of Unity '08 and guest of the speaker. Skipping over the podium, Angela Greiling Keane of Bloomberg News -- the chair of the National Press Club speakers committee. Skipping over our speaker for a moment -- (laughter) -- we'll get to you -- Debra Silimeo, senior vice president of Hager Sharp and the speakers committee member who organized today's event; Doug Bailey, cofounder of Unity '08 and a guest of the speaker; Eleanor Clift of Newsweek; Marilou Donahue of Artistically Speaking; and Martin Tolchin of The Politico. (Applause.) In the American political system, the people are represented by two separate yet equally important groups. (Laughter.) The Republicans, who generally oppose the Democrats, and the Democrats, who generally oppose the Republicans. A new group of idealists is trying to force them to work together. Today, we will hear their story. And we'll hear it from the star of the television show that opens each week with words suspiciously similar to what I just said. Sam Waterston has become a household name thanks to his portrayal of New York Assistant DA Jack McCoy in "Law and Order", the longest running prime time drama on American television. More often than not in his long career, Waterston has chosen roles like that of McCoy -- the sober, competent and dedicated professional trying to do the right thing in morally ambiguous circumstances. On television and in the movies, he plays people who think. In "The Matthew Shepard Story," he plays the father of the young man who was slain because he was gay. In "The Killing Fields," he played an American confronting the Cambodian genocide under dictator Pol Pot. And again and again over the years, he has portrayed Abraham Lincoln. Waterston immersed himself in studying the complexity of our greatest president, trying to get inside the man who led our country through its greatest challenge. So when the founders of a new political movement wanted a spokesperson that was the very image of sober competence, they chose Sam Waterston. The movement began when Doug Bailey joined with Jerry Rafshoon and Hamilton Jordan -- Republican and Democrat -- Democratic political consultants with decades of experience to start planning a book about how partisanship had rendered American politics dysfunctional. Indeed, few people say that they have faith in the system. In one poll, 85 percent said they think the system is too polarized to fix our problems. As the story is told, the dinner conversation turned to why just write a book? Why not try to do something about it? So disillusion led to action, and Unity '08 was born. The people behind TV's transformation of politics are now hoping the Internet will be transformative as well in a positive way. They plan to hold an online convention and nominate a bipartisan presidential ticket. Here to tell us how it's all going to work, please join me in welcoming Sam Waterston to the National Press Club. (Applause.) MR. WATERSTON: Thank you. I mean, if we wanted to really save time, I could just say he stole my speech. (Laughter.) But I've written this so I'm going to say it. Hello, I'm Sam Waterston and I'm not running for president. (Laughter.) I'm speaking to you today in answer to an invitation that's about 10 years old. Are you surprised to see me after all this time? I'm kind of surprised myself. This isn't my line of work and I wasn't going to come at all unless I had something to talk about that would merit disturbing the quiet enjoyment of your lunch, and now I do. Its name is Unity '08. So let's get down to business. Gridlock and partisanship, lobbying, corruption and money influence, paralysis and extremism -- the familiar words for our political landscape of such longstanding that at the sound our minds go into a kind of protective crouch. We're not going to talk about that again, are we? Surely that has to have been fixed by now. Tell me the words don't apply anymore. Maybe nothing can be done. But the words don't go away and the landscape doesn't improve by itself. Unity '08's goal is nothing less than to resurrect our lost political values and rescue tomorrow from today's neglect, to restore honest cooperation for the common good, and get to agreement on the ominous backlog of crucial issues from education and healthcare to immigration, security and the war in Iraq that looms over our future. You can't say Unity '08 is thinking small. A smart old Sicilian said, "Give me a place to stand and I will move the world." Unity '08's entire focus is on the election of a bipartisan presidential ticket in 2008, using new tools on the Internet to do the old-fashioned work of renewal. Its common sense assumptions are that if you give moderates a place to rally and the chance to vote for action at the center, the days of divisive politics will be numbered. Do it inexpensively, relying on small contributions alone and K Street corruption and money influence will begin to fade. Change this one thing and all things to do with Washington politics will change with it. The idea is simple. The execution can't be. It will take lots and lots of people. Getting the word out is crucial. Joining the effort is vital, whether you're a journalist, or just listening out of curiosity about what an actor might have to say, or both -- please pitch in. You can find out more about who we are, from the youngest student idealist among us to the wisest old owl, at our website, Unity08.com. My first mission is to get you to remember that address -- Unity08.com. The plan is good, simple and timely. The goals are commonsensical and badly needed, so naturally I want to make the most of this chance to stir your interest and the interest of the people who by joining will make Unity '08 succeed. I have 20 minutes. (Laughter.) But there will be question time afterwards and fortunately Doug Bailey and Jerry Rafshoon who started all this are here to answer the questions I can't. With them is Angus King, another founder who served two terms as an independent governor of Maine from 1994 to 2003, and can tell you about the practicalities of an independent executive making bipartisanship work, which is what Unity '08 is all about. I'm not much to look at beside them but I did get the original invitation and I have good lungs. If at any time in the course of things you think you hear the note of someone running for president himself don't be misled -- you're thinking of the other "Law and Order" actor. (Laughter.) And I harbor no resentment over the fact that Fred Thompson, after I was already involved, decided to inject himself into the 2008 race. (Laughter.) If I'm free to dabble in politics I guess he can too. I need to talk a little about myself here, which for an actor is a high and noble sacrifice. (Laughter.) But I'm prepared to make it because the cause is good.
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